FIX YOUR BACK LIKE AN ARCHITECT

By Marian Jodłowski

Discover the hidden forces that shape the human body! This book is a cutting-edge exploration of body mechanics and offers readers a unique and effective approach to understanding how to use the power of gravity to improve their health and fitness.

The book explains:

• How gravity shapes muscle tone while standing, moving, sitting, sleeping, and in weightlessness, and why they are so important for health
• What is the mechanism of assuming a vertical position by a human being and walking on two legs,
• What is the actual mechanics of joints and what is the contribution of muscles to their proper functioning on the example of the knee joint
• That the spine is not a column lifting the whole body and the weights lifted by man, but it serves as a mechanical muscular transmission

You won't find these explanations in any other book.

In addition, it offers readers plenty of practical advice and tips to help them improve their physical and mental fitness. Readers will learn:

• How to properly use gravitational energy to improve the musculoskeletal structure and the overall efficiency of the body
• How to avoid common musculoskeletal issues such as pain, disc herniation, and joint degradation
• How to maintain high physical and intellectual fitness with conscious energy acquisition
• How to avoid risky back and joint surgeries
• How to reduce daily ailments and contribute to recovery

Use the natural movement patterns and self-healing methods in this book. If you're ready to improve your body's fitness and stop aging to feel better every day, scroll up and click "Add to Cart" now!

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Marian Jodłowski
• Release date: Aug 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9788396428219

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Original title:

Napraw mechanikę ciała

Grawitacyjna terapia kręgosłupa i narządów ruchu

© Copyright by Marian Jodlowski

Editor of the original: Anna Alochno-Janas

Book translator: Milena Rudd, Nicholas Rudd

Cover and book design: Joanna & Grzegorz Japol (www.book-cover.design)

ISBN: 978-83-964282-1-9

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

The book primarily has an educational purpose: it is to arouse sensitivity to biophysical issues related to the human body and the resulting mechanisms influencing human health. It can’t be directly used to self-diagnose or determine the method of treating existing diseases. The assessment, approval, or recommendation of appropriate therapy always depends on a comprehensive assessment of the patient's health by a doctor or other medical professionals who deal with the treatment of the existing disease. Corrective exercises should also be performed under the supervision of a specialist. The content provided is also intended to draw the attention of medicine, rehabilitation and sports specialists to the insufficient or not always appropriate application of movement mechanics in treatment and exercise methods. It is meant to motivate potential patients to the correct prevention, pointing to the impact of issues related to gravity on Earth on the threats to health, but also the possibility of regaining full fitness.

Although the author and publisher have made every effort to ensure that the content is reliable and complete, they shall not be liable for any damages resulting from the instructions and indications contained in the book. They do not hold responsibility for any errors or inaccuracies contained therein. The instructional nature of the book requires that the treatment method be verified by an authorized specialist each time.

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I dedicate this book

to all those who appreciate and cherish the natural balance of nature,

which consciously influences their better health.

Table of contents

Entry

Introduction

Life Energy and Health

Chapter 1: Biochemical Cycle

Chapter 2: The Biogravitational Cycle

Chapter 3: Man as a Biomachine

Chapter 4: Sleep – the Energy Conversion Cycle

Chapter 5: Segmental Structure of the Human Body

Chapter 6: Torso Mechanical System

Chapter 7: Human Gravitational Postural Pattern

Chapter 8: The Myofascial System

Chapter 9: Body Defects

Chapter 10: Body Asymmetry and Laterality

Chapter 11: Scoliosis

Chapter 12: Cell Exchange and Body Reconstruction

Chapter 13: Movement Patterns

Chapter 14: Movement as a Source of Health and Life Energy

Chapter 15: The Way to Health

Entry

Let me explain to you what encouraged me to write this book. Well, as it happens, it was my own experience, health problems and astonishment that conventional medicine does not necessarily have the power of healing. More often than not, the treatment is only to help stop the destructive changes in the body and adapt it to the limitations caused by a disease, so that it is possible to live and function normally. A healthy person usually doesn’t worry about potential health issues and how to keep oneself in good condition for as long as possible. People in good physical condition think that when they get ill, they will probably be cured, just like many other sick people before them.

My case was no different. My point of view changed dramatically when, at the age of 55, I learned that I do have a spine, and what’s more that it is seriously damaged. I had never thought about it before. Like most people, I used my body without much concern for its condition and without realizing that my own body requires special attention and care to keep me in good health for many years to come. I must say that it changed in an instant, but then it was too late for prophylaxis. The condition was serious, and treatment attempts were unsuccessful. How bad was it? From my point of view, very. Obviously, people do suffer from severe and often incurable diseases, where a bad back is just a bad back. Nevertheless, the acute inflammation of the paraspinal nerve roots, which, due to excruciating pain, makes it impossible to walk, sit or move at all, is extremely severe. Additionally, the pain also disturbs sleep, and such a state lasts for weeks or even months.

After suffering from this condition, I began to search the Internet for advice on how to cure my back pain.

These searches were tedious and ineffective. I came across many studies which initially impressed me very much — mainly because of the wording used and the large number of anatomical details. However, upon closer inspection, it turned out that there were very few tips that I found useful.

Most people would probably say that I should have seen a doctor to treat my spine, rather than wasting time searching for a solution on my own. At the beginning, I thought so too, but I soon realized that doctors do not treat such ailments. Not in the way I imagined it, anyway.

From the time the first symptoms of the disease appeared in the form of shooting pains that immobilize the lumbar region, I was treated with painkillers and medications that relax contracted muscles. As the acute condition was fading for a while, I returned to my normal life, but the condition persisted, reappearing again after a few weeks. The injections did not bring any relief either. One time, after a hard day, when I bent down to make the bed, I experienced a very strong attack. When, after a few days, I was able to get back on my feet and move, although with great difficulty, the fight for recovery began.

In order to quickly diagnose the disease, I had a lumbar x-ray and a computed tomography scan, on the basis of which the diagnosis was made. The condition was serious. It turned out to be an attack of sciatica caused by a herniated disc at the level of the loins. Since there is a well-known rehabilitation hospital in my town, which also happens to treat such cases, I was referred for treatments prescribed by a specialist doctor. I went there every day for almost a month. The condition of the spine improved at times, then deteriorated again. The latter was probably partly my fault as I was still forcing myself to run my business as usual, and partly because the treatments were not fully effective. I discovered this only during the subsequent therapy sessions and while gaining knowledge on the subject. Today, I also know that a month is not enough time to treat severe diseases of the motor organs.

It was then that I decided not to leave the matter of my health to fate. Since I was not able to sit in the library and look for a solution, I searched the Internet for information and opinions of doctors, physiotherapists, and patients. I was lying on my front on the floor with my head slightly raised, staring at the laptop screen. I could only stay like this for 15–20 minutes at a time and then had to take breaks due to severe pain.

The conclusions were not uplifting. It turned out that modern academic medicine does not treat spine issues, except for serious pathologies and cases when it is too late for effective help and yet the patient should be helped in some way. This is usually when a treatment is offered with strong, debilitating painkillers, muscle relaxants, steroids, and innervation blockages.

When the patient is no longer able to withstand the pain, it may be necessary to undergo surgery. This may include removing fragments of the intervertebral disc that compresses the nerve and inserting an implant or fusing adjacent vertebrae with a metal splint. Normally, each of these is an emergency treatment, aimed to eliminate the pain as quickly as possible and maintain bodily functions. Nevertheless, it is not helping with the real restoration of its fitness and full recovery. What was more alarming to me was the fact that even doctors were looking for a good therapist which could help them in similar cases in order to avoid a risky surgery.

A series of events turned out to be quite favorable for me. I found a therapist in my town who treated diseases of the spine and other motor organs with exercises on a borderline with kinesiotherapy. In fact, it was his individual program, in which he accepted only one patient during a session and devoted all his time to that person, constantly correcting the body shape and the way of performing exercises. It turned out that he could only see me a month later. In order not to waste any time, I also took a different route, one which was recommended on the web by many convalescents. I found a manual therapist with many positive opinions about procedures he had performed. They turned out to be spot on. After about three weeks, I was free from most of the bothersome pain. My foot stopped dropping, and I was able to walk reasonably well. Anyway, the therapist required the patient to walk for a minimum of one hour immediately after each treatment. This was a vital element of the therapy.

After such preparation, I began many months of exercises under the watchful eye of a personal rehabilitation trainer. Initially, these were light exercises, aimed at general body strengthening and posture correction. After some time, I exercised with individually adjusted weights. It took almost a year and the results were really promising. The outcome was not only noticed by me but also by other people too. Jerzy Madej, the therapist I am writing about, was a trained rehabilitator with a basic knowledge of mechanics, gained during two years of study at a university of technology. He applied this knowledge in the process of exercises. He immediately noticed that I - as an architect and engineer - understood how these exercises work on different parts of the body, better than other patients. Nevertheless, I was not interested in rehabilitation methods at the time, and I was not working on improving my knowledge in this field either.

After almost a year-long break, for the next six months, I resumed the exercises under the supervision of the same therapist, in order to additionally strengthen the muscles and consolidate the transformation that had begun. From that moment on, I realized more and more that I should permanently introduce these exercises I had learned into my life. From that point on, I was looking for new exercises on the web that I could do at home, or I invented them myself and adapted them to my conditions in order to effectively strengthen myself and correct noticeable posture defects. However, I stopped exercising for several months. Then, after a while, I was feeling worse, so I kept coming back to them. I was also looking for the causes of the deterioration of my health. Therefore, I began to read medical studies and became interested in the recommended methods of treating the spine. After some time, I got acquainted with sports training methods which improved mobility and helped with radical muscle remodeling. But many of them could not have been used in my case. In the meantime, I began to see contradictions and shortcomings in the proposed treatments and exercises. I also observed on myself that many of them contradict the principles of mechanics of motion and the laws of physics. Instead of helping, they can only harm. However, the numerous articles and videos on the subject were very informative for me and helped deepen the knowledge I was interested in.

A direct inspiration for me to write this book was the e-book I read which stated that it is worth sharing the acquired knowledge in the form of a publication, as it is beneficial for both the readers and the author alike. So I decided to organize my knowledge and pass it on to others in the written word. It turned out to be much more than just writing a book. This exercise turned into an analytical job, during which a number of issues required an explanation. I did not want to write a research paper. Initially, I planned this to be a relatively simple tutorial that would help many people with back issues. However, I could not avoid many threads related to the mechanics of movement and relating to the phenomena responsible for our life on Earth. Nevertheless, I tried to make the content of the book interesting not only for medicine, rehabilitation or sports professionals, but also for ordinary people who are looking for tips on how to stay healthy and fit for many years. I wanted a book with content that is relatively easy and intuitive to understand. I myself was looking for such support once. The aim of this book is to identify the causes of problems in the functioning of the spine, movement organs, joints and deformities of the body in most of us. What factors trigger them and how to restore their proper balance and, consequently, get rid of pain. I do not refer to atypical diseases caused by genetic defects or other rare diseases.

The book is about the construction and operation of the mechanism, which is the human body, and the influence of the surrounding physical phenomena on its functioning. I wrote it from the perspective of a patient looking for rational methods to cure his own problem with the lumbar spine. This book also represents a critical reference to the many harmful interpretations and recommendations contained in medical, rehabilitation and sports literature regarding the mechanics of movement, the way of using the spine and the overall human body. Finally, it contains a number of indications regarding the causes of spine defects, as well as mechanisms that should be implemented during rehabilitation and in order to eliminate bad habits used every day (often unconsciously) that destroy its structure.

Introduction

Diseases and disorders of the motor organs, belonging to the so-called lifestyle diseases, are directly related to the lower energy of muscles and some internal organs. On the other hand, the body’s ability to absorb and process an appropriate amount of energy from the environment makes the human body strong an resilient, characterized by the proper dynamics of the operation and high resistance to diseases. The greater this ability is, the better coordinated the collection of biochemical and biogravitational energy and its appropriate processing during sleep and relaxation.

In this book, I present the mechanisms that are responsible for the aforementioned processes, enabling a person to maintain good condition and health at a high level until old age. In case of its loss and decreased efficiency, they give the ability to significantly improve these parameters.

Without understanding and applying these mechanisms regularly, avoiding many serious diseases and maintaining the efficiency of the body in mature and senior age could prove to be difficult.

Although academic medicine, being mainly based on pharmacy, greatly supports the maintenance of health among societies and saves people’s lives, it doesn’t however seem to be able to cure the so-called chronic diseases usually associated with the excessive depletion of the body’s energy resources. The same goes for other types of emergency treatments, such as acupuncture and manual therapy. Neither of these methods can comprehensively restore damaged and diseased internal organs or repair a deformed musculoskeletal system.

To take care of one’s health, every human should first and foremost provide the body with systematic access to life energy and effectively maintain it, thereupon other methods of treatment need to be used only if necessary.

It is common knowledge that to maintain health and stay in good shape, one needs to exercise or do some form of sport. You, the reader, will have to decide for yourself which form is better for you and more effective for maintaining health, drawing appropriate conclusions after getting acquainted with the mechanisms contained in this book, responsible for the proper and non-harmful gaining of vital energy.

To explain these mechanisms, I partially used the destructive effects on the health of cosmonauts. In the fall of 2017, when I was visiting my brother, who lives in New Jersey, I told him that I was intending to write a book on spine conditions. The next day, my brother presented me with a book on the dangers of sitting (Sitting Kills, Moving Heals), written by Joan Vernikos, a former director of the life sciences department at NASA.

I had a lot of my own insights on the harmfulness of a sedentary lifestyle, and in particular the effects of gravity on the human body. On that basis, I decided that the state of weightlessness will be a helpful phenomenon in clarifying many of the conditions that affect the health of people on our planet. Whilst on the case, I thought that it would be worth explaining what impacts the health of cosmonauts at the space station.

Although the book contains many integral issues in the individual chapters, it is best to read it from the very beginning. You can also read individual chapters, but then it is best to read the first five that are important for interpreting the content of the book.

The More Difficult Terms

At the end of the publication, you can find a shortened glossary with more difficult terms from the book. Nonetheless, some terms are explained in the text to maintain the flow of reading and understanding. Most of these definitions come from Wikipedia. They are characterized by a greater level of generality and are more accessible to the reader than those derived from specialist publications. They have been highlighted in separate columns with a gray background.

Own Terminology

This text contains the author’s own terms, identifying physical states and situations that have a significant impact on the presentation of the discussed issues from the mechanics of movement point of view. When used for the first time, they are distinguished in bold italics, and the rest of the text in plain italics.

Body Geometry

The terms used in academic medicine for the planes of the body were abandoned and replaced with more universal names: the frontal and transverse plane, related to the universal geometric identification of spatial solids based on Monge’s projections. However, it was not possible to carry out an analysis of the projection of individual body segments onto the horizontal plane, as the research on this matter is not sufficient.

The name anatomical axes was replaced with the main axis of the body and the variable 3D axis of the spine in order to correctly identify the positions taken by a human in relation to the ground and the shape of the spine adopted in connection with them.

Quotations

The quotes that constitute the support of the content contained in the book are highlighted in columns with a light turquoise background.

Important Phrases

The author has marked the more important phrases in turquoise text with a vertical stripe on the left side in the same color.

Life Energy and Health

Energy is a very important physical parameter which foremost keeps one alive and provides health and strength to overcome sickness. Healthy and strong people are full of energy. Sick and weak - quite the opposite. Energy allows you to perform even the most difficult and complex tasks, implement plans, overcome obstacles and make your dreams come true. Therefore, adequate energy resources give not only physical but also mental strength. They motivate further action, freeing up layers of optimism. As one has to deal with everyday duties, achieve goals and use energy, one develops and strengthens.

From the moment of birth, we get energy from the environment, and the body itself processes the collected resources into other types of energy necessary for life, proper development and functioning.

The main types of energy that propel the human body are:

biochemical energy supplied to the body in the form of food, processed and burned in the cells of the entire body in the presence of oxygen in the biochemical cycle;

biogravitational energy provided to the organism from the gravitational force of the human body and the strength of the substrate’s reaction on the elastic structure of the muscles in the biogravitational cycle

The way how a person functions on a daily basis determines the extent to which he or she obtains these types of energy for the current and future strengthening of the body as well as maintaining health. One of the key conditions in maintaining the body’s energy efficiency at a sufficient level is the acquired quality, quantity and mutual proportions of the aforementioned types of energy, as well as care for its assimilation in the energy conversion cycle whilst sleeping. It is this energy efficiency of the body in the internal organs and muscles that determines the resistance to diseases and the precise functioning of the musculoskeletal system and spine.

CHAPTER 1

Biochemical Cycle

The biochemical cycle is quite well recognized and described in many scientific publications. It is called metabolism. It is based on providing the body with energy through regular nutrition. Therefore, I will only present synthetic information about the processes that occur. Research has shown that energy in the organism is produced in every cell of the body by cell organelles known as mitochondria, often referred to as the powerhouse of the cell.

Mitochondrion (plural mitochondria) - is a double membrane-bound organelle found in most eukaryotic organisms. Some cells in some multicellular organisms lack mitochondria (for example, mature mammalian red blood cells). Mitochondria are commonly between 0.75 and 3 μm² in area but vary considerably in size and structure. Unless specifically stained, they are not visible. In addition to supplying cellular energy, mitochondria are involved in other tasks, such as signaling, cellular differentiation, and cell death, as well as maintaining control of the cell cycle and cell growth.¹

In the mitochondria, cellular respiration produces most of the cell’s adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is its energy source.

Adenosine diphosphate (ADP), also known as adenosine pyrophosphate (APP), is an important organic compound in metabolism and is essential to the flow of energy in living cells. ADP can be interconverted to adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and adenosine monophosphate (AMP). Energy transfer used by all living things is a result of dephosphorylation of ATP by enzymes known as ATPases. ATP is continually reformed from lower-energy species ADP and AMP.²

The main fuel of energy production in the biochemical cycle are glycogen, fatty acids and proteins formed during metabolism in the intestines, which are absorbed in the digestive process and transported through the bloodstream to each cell. Their combustion takes place in the mitochondria, with the participation of oxygen also supplied by the blood. The carrier of chemical energy are ATP molecules, constantly produced by the body for the needs of this process. The direct generation of energy occurs when ATP is broken down into ADP. The amount of ATP in each cell is limited and lasts for a few seconds after starting exercise (movement). As soon as the muscles start working, in its place begins a dynamic and mass production of new ATP molecules in the amount adapted to the current activity of the organism. The workload of muscles increases the cellular metabolism. The amount of energy produced in different parts of the body varies, and the biochemical cycle depends on the number of mitochondria in their cells. This number is adapted to their functions and the energy requirements of the individual organs of the body. They are especially abundant in organs responsible for important vital functions, such as the heart, liver, kidneys, brain, nervous system and muscles. It has been found that nearly 30% of the weight of the heart is taken by mitochondria, and there are approximately 5,000 of them in each heart cell. The brain also uses significant amounts of energy. At rest, it is about 20% of the total energy consumed by the body. For this reason, significant internal organs, essential to vital functions, have their base to supply them with energy.

Due to their mass and function, muscles store the greatest amount of energy used in everyday life. They take advantage of the mitochondria’s ability to accumulate and produce energy during:

maintaining an upright posture,

adopting all other body positions,

performing isolated activities,

performing complex activities.

Due to the rational arrangement of mitochondria in the muscles and internal organs, it is possible to independently activate local energy in individual parts of the body. This allows for an extremely economical use of the energy generated by the body in the biochemical cycle.

For example:

in the rest position, mitochondria work mainly in the internal organs, maintaining vital functions at the necessary level;

in isolated work, such as the movement of a finger, hand, arm, head, or face (facial expressions), energy is produced by groups of mitochondria placed locally;

when performing complex activities, energy is generated by the mitochondria of all muscles, although their local activity is adapted to the actual workload of individual muscle groups in different parts of the body.

The production of energy in the internal organs is adapted to their functions and their energy requirements.

Each human is born with a certain initial package of mitochondria in the body. Their number and quality vary slightly for each person. This affects the dynamics and regularity of development in children, as well as the occurrence of abnormalities in the developmental period.

Along with the growth of internal organs and the development of muscles, a young body increases the